Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to overhaul a key committee on vaccine policy has left the country’s vaccine infrastructure “critically weakened,” former members of the group said in a piece published in JAMA on Monday.

All 17 members of ACIP, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, have just published an article in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) highlighting their experiences on the committee and their grave concerns about their recent firings by RFK,

The medical community is bracing for attacks on, and the possible dismantling of, federal recommendations for safe, lifesaving childhood vaccinations after health secretary and fervent anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly fired all 17 members of a federal vaccine advisory committee Monday.